I thought bounding on stage would be cuter than just walking on. Still trying to figure out a title for the film.... My mom has suggested Sirius Dramatics, which I think is cute. I don't know, I'll choose one soon. 

So here's the first shot I've roughly animated. I wanted to make sure the suit dissolve would work.

I also did cleaner layouts for my film. 

I also wanted to do some color tests with reality. 

I've also cleaned up my animatic with my classes comments. My film is now about 1 min 22 seconds. That's what I've been up to lately. You can see my work log for a more detailed catalog of what I've done.

Hoo boy I managed to redo both my character sheet and my walk:

I like this walk much better. It's definitely more expressive. Now I can get on to fixing up my animatic and starting animating. We're a third of the week through and I feel like I'm on track (at least I hope I am).

This was pretty down to the wire, but I managed to fix up the animatic for class this week:

Also I got a composer! Marc Laroussini has been kind enough to want to work on my project. He's also looking into doing the sound design as well as compose, which is fantastic. 

Super excited to start animating. Wish me luck.

I finally managed to nail down a character design. Here it is:

I tried to emulate what brush I'm going to try to use in TVPaint as best I could. I'm going to make sure my final lines are still going to be active, and not super stiff. If that means it's not going to be flash level clean, so be it. I prefer that anyway.

Here's also some of the concepts and stuff I had for trying to figure out what to do:

Still trying to figure out a title and nail down what I want the title to be, and background colors.

Just wanted to make a quick lil post to show off the mood board I made for my film:

Still not too sure about colors as of right now, but I've locked down how I want the lines to be and also the character design.

Wow, my first animatic you guys! I feel so professional. It doesn't have sound yet, bur it still looks cool.

I made this in TVPaint Pro 11 and honestly I'm so thankful I bought pro. Being able to view the storyboards as an animatic in real time is insanely invaluable. It also helped me make it amazingly fast; I did the whole thing today. So if you're on the fence about which version to get, I'd definitely tell you Pro, hands down.

I also have to wake up early to go to the Artist Call meeting with Eastman and Nazareth students. I'm not presenting, but I'm hoping I can at least foster some good connections, and I'll have my boards from this animatic (you can publish it directly from TVP, how fantastic is that?) if someone is interested in composing for it. I certainly hope that's what will happen.

Well, I tried my best at adapting a human walk cycle to just a dog on hind legs, and here's what came out of it:

It actually didn't turn out too bad after I cleaned it up. I watched Faith's video while doing this, and noticed that dogs take really small steps since their hind legs don't extend straight out like ours do. I also tried to make sure the spine was curved downward for balance reasons. I found myself simplifying the hind legs into meaty thighs, and then curves near the end. I do like that approach, but I think I might need other people's comments to see if it's believable or not. What do you guys think?